Archive for the Old News Category

On January 21, 2010, a skinhead wrapped up in a Confederate flag walked into the Asti, a bar in downtown Santa Cruz, and began flashing Nazi salutes at everybody. According to someone who posted the story to the Santa Cruz Independent Media website, “it was obvious he had quite a good crowd enjoying his little demonstration. It took us a second to fully understand what was going on, until he went to one of the few black guys in the bar and started some shit, followed by getting his ass kicked outside of the bar.” The person who dished out the beat-down to the Nazi got away safely with the help of their friends (the Independent Media writer made sure of this fact, someone everyone should do whenever shit goes down).

Nathan Augustine, 35, walked into the Creative Visions tattoo parlor in Monterey in July of 2009 and asked for tattoos of a swastika and crosshairs over Obama’s face. The tattoo parlor refused, so on July 13 he threw a Molotov cocktail at them. Apparently he also arsoned the Lattitudes restaurant in Pacific Grove on July 15 after he was turned down on a job application.

At the tattoo parlor, police found Russian Standard vodka bottles converted into Molotov cocktails bearing a swastika and a symbol similar to the British Union Jack with added diagonal lines through it in red ink handwriting.

Between January and April 2009, a number of swastikas were painted around the city (along with the phrases “kill Obama” and “death to Obama”). Augustine was arrested in connection with the graffiti, and his house was searched. The police found numerous containers of lighter fluid, gloves similar to those found at one of the restaurant arson and the symbol similar to the Union Jack with the added diagonal lines.

A few editorial comments: We don’t care about Obama, but obviously this guy’s a fucking Nazi. This story definitely goes to show that local Nazis are certainly capable of attacking people they don’t like. We don’t know if the restaurant turned him down on his job application because they knew he was a Nazi, or just because they’re capitalists who can afford to pick and choose whose labor to exploit, so no comment on that for now. Finally, we don’t think that sending him to prison, where he’ll probably just join the Aryan Brotherhood, is that useful of a solution.